Drawing its title from a piece by Ron Kolm which has appeared in several versions and nearly twenty magazines around the world, Suburban Ambush tells the story of the reinvention of American fiction.
Drawing its title from a piece by Ron Kolm which has appeared in several versions and nearly twenty magazines around the world, Suburban Ambush tells ...
Kellner explores the effects of historical crises of capitalism and Marxism on critical theory and reflects on the continued relevance or obsolescence of Marxism and critical theory. Kellner writes, -As we move into the 1990s critical theory might help produce theoretical and political perspectives which could be part of a Left Turn that could reanimate the political hopes of the 1960s, while helping overcome and reverse the losses and regression of the 1980s.-
Kellner explores the effects of historical crises of capitalism and Marxism on critical theory and reflects on the continued relevance or obsolesce...
"All literary genres are artifacts", writes Michael Riffaterre, "but none more blatantly so than fiction. Its very name declares its artificiality, and yet it must somehow be true to hold the interest of its readers, to tell them about experiences at once imaginary and relevant to their own lives. This paradox of truth in fiction is the problem for which I propose to seek a solution."
In "Fictional Truth" Riffaterre identifies and discusses the features that give fictional narratives their ring of truth. He offers a semiotic revision of traditional narratology, sets forth a new theory of...
"All literary genres are artifacts", writes Michael Riffaterre, "but none more blatantly so than fiction. Its very name declares its artificiality, an...
By the end of the nineteenth century, women had become an undeniable force both in the public discussion of social life and in politics itself. Yet in art and literature women's bodies continued to be represented-- and domesticated-- by men. They were still more often the object of the artist's or writer's gaze than they were the subject of their own representing processes. The erotic potential of women's bodies, however, was far from a marginal concern in the elaboration of modern forms of politics, art, literature, and psychology.
In "Eroticism and the Body Politic", scholars from art...
By the end of the nineteenth century, women had become an undeniable force both in the public discussion of social life and in politics itself. Yet in...
What connects the Romantic essays of Thomas De Quincey and the violent cinema of Brian De Palma? Or the -beautiful- suicides of Hedda Gabler and Yukio Mishima? Or the shootings of John Lennon and Ronald Reagan? In The Aesthetics of Murder, Joel Black explores the sometimes gruesome interplay between life and art, between actual violence and images of violence in a variety of literary texts, paintings, and films.
Rather than exclude murder from critical consideration by dismissing it as a crime, Black urges us to ponder the killer's artistic role--and our own experience as...
What connects the Romantic essays of Thomas De Quincey and the violent cinema of Brian De Palma? Or the -beautiful- suicides of Hedda Gabler and Yu...
Applying Bakhtin's critical methods to film, mass-media and cultural studies, Stam draws on Bakhtin's corporal semiotics of the grotesque body to analyze eroticism in the cinema, and explores issues including the translinguistic critique of Saussurean semiotics and Russian formalism.
Applying Bakhtin's critical methods to film, mass-media and cultural studies, Stam draws on Bakhtin's corporal semiotics of the grotesque body to anal...
"Goes a long way to proving that any literary masterpiece, read with sympathy and intelligence, works to re-establish the connections between the work of art and the life and thought of its time." -- James R. Mellow, "Times Literary Supplement"
"Goes a long way to proving that any literary masterpiece, read with sympathy and intelligence, works to re-establish the connections between the w...
In recent years, the idea of multiculturalism has become a powerful--and controversial--influence in a variety of social and cultural territories. In the academic world it has profoundly influenced curriculum and scholarship in the humanities, particularly in traditionally Eurocentric disciplines such as comparative literature.
It was hardly surprising, then, that the 1993 report -Comparative Literature at the Turn of the Century---which endorses a multicultural orientation for the discipline--generated an unprecedented level of interest. The third such report on professional...
In recent years, the idea of multiculturalism has become a powerful--and controversial--influence in a variety of social and cultural territories. ...
How did the creation of the -Other- woman in English narratives contribute to the displacement of sexuality onto the exotic or savage woman? How did this cultural invention reinforce the cult of domesticity at home? What were the social and economic forces driving the process? Among the first books to consider issues of empire in relation to literary texts of the eighteenth century, Torrid Zones offers a compelling revision of the history of feminism in a postcolonial context.
Felicity Nussbaum argues that the need to control women's sexuality in eighteenth-century England...
How did the creation of the -Other- woman in English narratives contribute to the displacement of sexuality onto the exotic or savage woman? How di...
- The] ongoing proliferation of new versions of Carmen presents an ideal opportunity to study relationships between literature and the performing arts. The Fate of Carmen investigates these relationships, exploring in particular how and why certain literary texts appear to renew their own textual practices in modes of expression which are not uniquely verbal--- from the Introduction
Beginning with Prosper Merimee's 1845 novella, Carmen has been the subject of countless portrayals--from Bizet's 1874 opera, to various dramatic, dance, and musical renditions, to the...
- The] ongoing proliferation of new versions of Carmen presents an ideal opportunity to study relationships between literature and the perfo...
